[keep-on-rockying]

extremely big fan of depicting a change in rocky's emotions by turning him into ball. I am not immune to a little silly

also extremely big fan of the Other options for this: photo of Real Actual Rock, and photo of James Ortiz The Actor

[wildminti]

Grace, your friend is an apex predator.

[phantomfray]

Grace arriving on Erid: "So I know i'm an alien and your scientists are probably like super curious about me, I just want to say you can totally do minor, noninvasive experements on me provided you run them by me first. You can totally take like hair and nail and blood samples, i'm willing to run a maze of two, everyone's been super polite in not asking for anything but I promise im not offended. Are you sure you don't want a blood sample? I swear i'm fine with it, want to scan my eyes and brain activity while I look at different colors? Heck pretty much anything short of flat out vivisection is on the table for discussion here. Please experement on me I really want to know what you find out."

The Eridian Governments: wtf WTF wtF???

The Eridian Scientists: *celebrating like they've won the intersteller lottery*

THREE MONTHS LATER

Grace, showing the beginning signs of appendicitis and clutching a bottle of local anesthetic: "Soooo, about what I said before about vivisection being off the table. . ."

[spades-of-ace--arts]

so i've recently gotten into project hail mary and saw people making some fucked up eridians, and in the dead of night the muses had struck me with some form of divine inspiration.

behold my beautiful and fucked up child; Wet Floor.

[whitenessgreynessdarkness]

@pineappical

[c4nd1e]

Someone and I mean anyone, can you tell me where I can get a crochet version of Rocky from PHM ?

I mean I could learn how to crochet but I’m currently saving up money…soooo. Yk

Pretty please :D

[charredcrouton]

I know @huggablespooder has a crochet pattern and I think sells completed ones?

[tallowandport]

I have seen glimpses of phm Ryland Grace being turned/reborn/made into an eridian to extend his life or some-such-similar-reason.

And I propose.

Since Eridian brains seem better with memory and such.

(I wonder if, because their brains are basically a big crystal, the reason their memory is so good is because it literally gets carved into the crystal so they can revisit it whenever with no problem.)

Imagine they manage to basically transfer Grace's consciousness into crystal brain into Eridian body.

and suddenly Grace is one of the smartest bitches on Erid (not that he wasn't already smart, or that the Eridians didn't already view him as smart, but now they have an easier way to comprehend how smart he is) because he no longer has the feeble flaws of a human brain with it's weird memory and stuff.

Rocky when Grace is human: This is my very smart, squishy alien friend.

Rocky when Grace becomes an Eridian and can finally properly chatter about Science: holy shit, Grace is a very smart fucking Nerd.

[transtarks]

i already talked about this on twitter but i'll talk about it here too! thinking about the first night that grace has to sleep alone on erid. obviously he and rocky are attached at the hip now but rocky does have things he needs to attend to now that he's home, and grace needs to sleep but he's starting to have a very real panic attack now that he realizes rocky isn't going to be watching him. his pulse spikes, he gets lightheaded, he's trying to hide it so hard. adrian was the one who dropped by to tell him rocky wouldn't be there tonight, and grace just freaks out instantly. but adrian, who honestly isn't even that fond of grace yet because they haven't spent nearly enough time with him, immediately notices the way grace freezes and they're like "oh fuck can he die from this? rocky will kill me if his alien dies in my presence" and quickly tells grace, "that is why i am staying to watch you." and grace immediately starts to calm down, even if he is a little surprised.

adrian fully understands how into grace rocky is, but they didn't understand the extent to which grace needs/wants rocky until now. it warms their hearts, but it also breaks them specifically because of how much they must have had to endure together to be this reliant on each other. especially because, from what rocky has told them, adrian knows humans don't technically need anyone to watch them sleep like eridians do.

anyway grace is able to fall asleep that night and adrian just kinda scoots closer and closer until grace is like fully curled up against them at one point, and adrian finds themself thinking "oh no. this is Adorable. oh fuck. oh shit." let the bonding between them begin in EARNEST at that point.

[rythms-of-synthax-deactivated20]

Quote of the day

[baffledtreesquid]

I’m seeing a lot of people saying this post changed their brain chemistry, and as a neuroscientist I wanted to say yes!!! Yes it does!

Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.

If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.

Let your likes guide you.

(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psych

[glowbeam]

rocky has been planning this whole speech in his head for years about how he loves adrian so much and always will but he has fundamentally changed during this mission and cannot imagine any version of events where he's not by grace's side for the rest of his short life, that grace is his partner and his best friend and his love and he's changed the way he speaks and sings to better suit grace's ears, has a permanent melody that uses grace's heartbeat as a metronome, and he love love loves his mate and has waited to see them again for so long, but if they want him to give up grace he doesn't think that is something he'd be capable of,

and then when adrian actually meets grace they can't stop purring and they're saying 🎶hero grace. saved stars, saved planets. saved adrian mate. love love love.🎶 they're using a courting frequency.

grace likes their voice. cuddles up to them when they watch him sleep. they talk about science, and culture. sometimes rocky just listens to them talk.

"you're thinking too loud, rock," grace says. adrian has one of their limbs around him and chirps in agreement. "something wrong?"

🎶no,🎶 says rocky. 🎶everything perfect.🎶

[glowbeam]

adrian: obviously grace and rocky have a deep bond that i can't really fully understand from being alone in space saving the universe

grace: obviously rocky and adrian have a deep bond that i can't really fully understand from being married for almost two centuries

rocky: hello eriddit. i (302M) have two mates (337X) (40M) who are both brilliant scientists. i love them both very much and was very excited when they started courting each other. however WIBTA if i thought they were too close? like i'm no slouch or anything, i'm an engineer, but you get these two talking about origin of life research and it starts going WAY over my carapace —

[straightboyfriend]

mike’s hard bubble tea

[emeraldfoxface]

It’s just marbles

[lunosphere]

Anastasia Trusova, “Dust” Acrylic on canvas, 2022

[atrusovaartist]

Acrylic on canvas, 40 × 50 cm

„Sad Daisies“

Sometimes even daisies feel sad. Beneath a heavy summer sky, they continue to bloom despite the wind, the rain, and the shadows of passing clouds. For me, this painting is about quiet resilience — about the beauty that remains even in moments of sadness.

[maidthings]

hi welcome to my kitchen this is my box that makes things cold and my box that makes things hot and my box that makes things wet and my box that makes things full of EM waves and my box tha

[winged-void]

this one has 👍 bread

[ashenmind]

box that slowly turns bread into stale bread

[ouroborosorder]

”all language is approximation” believers when my autistic ass finally weaves together the exact right linguistic phrase that conveys pure information and shatters qualia as we know it

[asphodel-asphodel]

always have. <3

[spinji]

This is why I love indie productions so much.